Civil Rights

“The nation has followed a bizarre racial path in which
discrimination in favor of minorities has been viewed as the path to
non-discrimination and equality, with no end in sight.’”

“All, too, will bear
in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all
cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the
minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to
violate would be oppression.” Thomas Jefferson.

Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):

One of America’s founding principles is
on every coin: E Pluribus Unum - Out
of many, we’re one.

We may
have come from many places and be of different races and ethnic origins,
but if we are Americans, our differences have always paled in comparison
to what unites us.

America has been the great melting pot for all citizens willing to
preserve our freedoms, justice and opportunities.

Civil rights legislation was passed
to overcome institutional racism.

Declaration of
Independence “…All Men are created equal…” applied
initially to free men only.

§Black economist and best-selling author Thomas
Sowell, based on the number of newspapers that carry his column, is one of the
country's top 10 columnists.

§"The Cosby Show," a positive, upbeat
sitcom about a black, upper-middle-class family, reigned for years as America's
most-watched television program.

§Black faces on television abound — in
commercials, as local and national news anchors, and in shows playing a variety
of characters — from doctors and lawyers up to and including the
president of the United States.

President John
F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961 signed Executive Order 10925 which
created Affirmative action.

oGovernment employers may "not discriminate against any employee or
applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin"
and "take affirmative action to
ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during
employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."

There are
multiple misconceptions about America and slavery.

oSlavery was an ancient and universal institution,
not a distinctly American innovation.

oSlavery existed only briefly, and in limited
locales, in the history of the Republic – involving only a tiny
percentage of the ancestors of today’s Americans.

oA 2011 Congressional Research Service (CRS) survey
of federal affirmative-action policies uncovered 12 government-wide and 264 agency-specific
statutes that require or encourage such preferences; the grand total of 276.

oAffirmative action operates on a presumption of
collective grievance.

oRacial preferences admit lower qualified
applicant’s entry.

oOnce accepted, those with lower qualifications have
lower probability of finishing / prospering.

oPeople succeed because they are skilled and driven,
not because they have Harvard degrees.

Black students admitted to universities above their skill level
often do poorly, fail to graduate.

oAlmost all black students are admitted to law
school with drastically lower college and LSAT grades than their white and
Asian students.

§At
elite law schools 51% of black students had first-year grades that put them in
the bottom 10% of their class, and two-thirds are in the bottom fifth as
opposed to 7% white students.

§At
elite law schools black students had a higher failing and dropout rate, 19%
compared to 8% for white students.

§Blacks
are four times as likely to fail the bar exam on the first try compared with
78% of whites.

§Even
after multiple attempts, only 57% of blacks succeeded in passing the bar.

oA Duke study found that admitting
aspiring minority scientists to schools where they are less prepared than their
peers is counterproductive.

§Duke admits black students with
SAT scores on average over one standard deviation below those of whites and
Asians.

§Not surprisingly, blacks’
grades in their first semester are significantly lower than those of other
ethnic groups, but by senior year, the difference between black and white
students’ grades has shrunk almost 50%.

§Blacks improve their GPAs because
they switch disproportionately out of more demanding science and economics
majors into the humanities and soft social sciences, which grade much more
liberally and require less work.

§Of incoming students who reported
a major, more than 76% of black male freshmen at Duke intended to major in the
hard sciences or economics, higher even than the percentage of white male
freshmen who anticipated such majors.

§More than half of those would-be
black science majors switched track in the course of their studies, while less
than 8% of white males did, so that by senior year, only 35% of black males
graduated with a science or economics degree, while more than 63% of white
males did.

Race based
preferences have been banned in California, Washington, Michigan, and
Nebraska.

Institutionalizing
affirmative action preferences in India pits every group with any
grievance, real or imagined, against each other.

oIndia's
founders constitutionally banning “untouchability”
in 1950 and guaranteed equal treatment under the law for everyone regardless of
caste, sex, religion or race.

oThey
created a list or "schedule" of all the dalit
sub-castes deserving preferential treatment and handed them a percentage of the
seats in the parliament and state legislatures.

oThey
also gave them a fixed percentage of all public-sector jobs and guaranteed
spots in public or publicly funded universities.

oThe
scheme was supposed to last 10 years, but instead it assumed a life of its own,
making scheduled-caste status a bigger driver of success than individual merit..

oQuotas
have become a fact of life in India because they are the major currency with
which Indian politicians buy votes.

·“Disparate impact” is the
favored but dubious legal theory that asserts discrimination purely on the
results, with no proof of any intent of discrimination.

oThe only thing the “disparate
impact” logic proves is correlation, not causation.

·Affirmative action replaced old
injustices with new ones; it divides rather than unites it.

Despite evidence to the contrary,
diversity asserts that a racial mix improves environment.

College
diversity programs fail to raise standards.

College faculty
diversity failed to support need for same-sex, same-diversity role models.

Democrat party
excused biased words and actions by allies, but not any Republicans.

Republican party promoted more blacks into national leadership
positions.

The National Black Republicans
Association (NBRA) has researched political parties and civil rights actions:

·Every
civil rights law, beginning in the 1860s through the 1950s and 1960s, was
fought against by Democrats.

·Jim
Crow era in the South was dominated by Democrats.

·Klu
Klux Klan became a military force serving the interests of the Democrat Party.

·Condi
Rice was the first female black Secretary of State.

African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North,
which began during WWI.

African-Americans created urban ghettoes in
the large cities of the north.

In 1920 19 of the twenty largest cities
were all located in the North and were from 92.5% to 99% white.

By 1990 these cities were from 26 to 76%
black.

By the 2010 Census the cities with the
highest black populations were Detroit, MI, which was 83% black, and Newark, NJ which was 52%.

The destinations of
job-seeking African-American migrants were controlled by Democrats, it is
overwhelmingly clear that these great pockets of urban poverty were
created and maintained by that one political party.

Tragically all of these cities have very
high rates of segregation, poor education for African-Americans.; high
unemployment, single motherhood, and crime.